Bridgerton’s Nicola Coughlan Auditioned For Stranger Issues

Seems, Nicola Coughlan — who performs Penelope Featherington in Bridgerton — initially tried out for a really completely different Netflix position.

Yup, Nicola auditioned for the position of Robin in Stranger Issues. In case you want a fast refresher, Robin’s character joined the present in Season three as Steve’s Scoops Ahoy coworker. In fact, the half ended up going to Maya Hawke.

So, after we requested Nicola over Zoom about what roles she had auditioned for however did not get, she replied, “I auditioned for Stranger Issues a variety of years in the past.”

“I auditioned to play Robin, Maya Hawke obtained it,” Nicola instructed BuzzFeed. “She was much better than I ever would have been.”

“It is a good lesson to actors: Watch the stuff you did not get, since you’ll completely perceive the way it’s not private.”

“You are good for some issues, and you are not proper for different issues,” she continued.

In case you’re how Maya landed the position, she was initially beneficial to casting director Carmen Cuba by one other actor for a special mission. Within the phrases of Maya herself, “When the brand new season was being written, there was a component in it and I obtained to audition for it. I flew to LA, and I did some chemistry reads with Joe Keery, who’s simply so fantastic and hysterical and wonderful — after which it was historical past.”